In a press release Sunday, LAPD said officers were responding to a radio call of “indecent exposure”. A “concerned citizen” had called police to report “that a male and a female were involved in indecent exposure inside a Silver Mercedes with the vehicle door open,” the press release states. After authorities questioned actress Daniele Watts and her boyfriend, Brian James Lucas, it was “determined that no crime had been committed.” Both were released.
The Los Angeles Times interviewed LAPD Sgt. Jim Parker, who responded to the call. He said race was never a factor and only wanted the couple’s IDs for identification purposes.
Watts and Lucas have since spoken out about the incident.
Previously:
“Django Unchained” star Daniele Watts claims she was unlawfully detained by police Thursday after they saw her kissing her white boyfriend in a car and allegedly mistook her for a prostitute.
In a Facebook post dated Sept. 11, Watts wrote that she was “handcuffed and detained” by two Studio City police officers in Los Angeles that day after refusing to show her ID.
Here’s how Watts describes the alleged incident on Facebook:
Today I was handcuffed and detained by 2 police officers from the Studio City Police Department after refusing to agree that I had done something wrong by showing affection, fully clothed, in a public place.
When the officer arrived, I was standing on the sidewalk by a tree. I was talking to my father on my cell phone. I knew that I had done nothing wrong, that I wasn’t harming anyone, so I walked away.
A few minutes later, I was still talking to my dad when 2 different police officers accosted me and forced me into handcuffs.
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